Golf Tip #1: Shorten Your Driver – Lengthen Your Drives
Author: Adam Beach
Why has the word “Standard Length” lost all of its meaning in golf? What happened to “Standard” meaning that all things being the same you would get what you expected? In years past this definition has lost its true meaning, and in no more apparent place then in driver lengths.
Twenty years ago the standard length of a driver was 43 inches. Drivers have now stretched to as much as 46 inches! So what does this mean? Think about it drivers are getting longer and people are not getting taller.
Twenty years is not enough time for us humans to genetically evolve, even though we would like to think so sometimes. Secondly, it means that for the majority of golfers hitting fairways is becoming increasingly more difficult.
So what is driving the golf industry to change the length of drivers you might ask? Well it began with technology. Titanium and ultra-light graphite shafts were two materials that,
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correct swing plane
saying swinging harder
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